Online Posts Misconstrue Data on Social Security Numbers
In September 2015, the Social Security Administration began a process that automatically designates individuals aged 115 and older as deceased and ends payments to them.
Kamala Harris’ Closing Arguments
Trump, who skipped a Republican debate to speak in Michigan that day, gave what the Detroit Free Press described as a “rollicking, bellicose speech to workers against automakers’ and the President Joe Biden administration’s efforts to push a transition to electric vehicles.”
Baldwin claim that Hovde “just proposed cutting Social Security by 28%” is misleading
The Baldwin ad features an April 24, 2012 appearance by Hovde, then in his first run for U.S. Senate, at the Milwaukee Press Club, where he was asked if he favors "either raising the retirement age and/or cutting benefits for those who are considered wealthy."
Senate Republicans mislead about Slotkin, stimulus checks
The National Republican Senatorial Committee recently claimed in an ad that Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Elissa Slotkin, gave taxpayer money to immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally.
Misleading Democratic Ad in Nevada on ‘Sunsetting Medicare and Social Security’
In 2013, economist Henry J. Aaron of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center warned the House Judiciary Committee that a Republican BBA proposal at that time “would negatively impact the economy and threaten the nation’s financial stability.”
Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention
Trump’s proposal to end federal taxes on tips (which Vice President Kamala Harris later said she also supports) is aimed at benefiting mostly low-income workers, though some economists doubt it will work.